Prof Sam Illingworth
Professor of Creative Pedagogies | Poet | Game Designer | Bridging creativity and communities through poetry, games, and GenAI.
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- ⚠️💔 Aid sanctions harm mothers and children A new study found that aid sanctions led to 3–6% rises in infant, under-5, and maternal deaths by cutting health aid, undoing decades of progress. 🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #SciComm #GlobalHealth 🧪 #Sanctions
- 🐝🔥Heat + land use = bad news for bees A new study shows that rising temperatures make land-use stress even worse for bees – but not for predatory insects higher up the food chain. Night-time heat was especially harmful. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #SciComm #ClimateChange 🧪 #Bees
- 🧠🗯️ Why do people fall for BS? A new meta-analysis finds that belief in motivational quotes, conspiracy theories, and intuition is linked to higher bullshit receptivity – while stronger reasoning skills help guard against it. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/acp.... #SciComm #Psychology 🧪
- 🧠💤 Poor sleep, poorer memory? Sleep disorders such as insomnia and apnoea significantly raise the risk of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. Insomnia increases Alzheimer’s risk by 49%. Apnoea by 45%. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SciComm #Sleep 🧪
- 🌱🧠 Talk, move, & connect to protect your mental health A study of 600+ adults in Western Australia shows that simple activities like daily chats, time in nature, and physical activity are strongly linked to better mental wellbeing. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #MentalHealth 🧪
- 📜🐬 Poetry & Porpoises A new study maps a 65% range contraction of the Yangtze finless porpoise over 1,400 years - by analysing their appearance in 724 classic Chinese poems. 🔗 www.cell.com/current-biol... #SciComm #Poetry #SciArt #Conservation 🧪
- 🫐🍷 Flavonoids and ageing A new study followed 86,000+ older US adults for decades and found diets rich in flavonoids – from tea, apples, red wine, berries – linked to lower risks of frailty, physical decline, & poor mental health. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #Nutrition 🧪
- 🌕🐑 Today’s haiku: sheep press into dark, the shepherd’s shadow lengthens – moonrise on the plain 🎨 Inspired by The Sheepfold, Moonlight (c. 1856) by Jean-François Millet. #Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets #Millet #PastoralArt
- 🐀🧬 Rats & urban disease risk A new study finds Leptospira bacteria (which cause leptospirosis) persist in local rat populations - shaped by rat group boundaries like major roads. One human infection strain was even found to match rat DNA. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #SciComm 🧪
